Decoration Day after the Civil War became Memorial Day. The last Monday in May is when this country is supposed to stop long enough to name the cost of remaining a people.
Triumph and perseverance meet in a cemetery: the Union held; Europe was not left to a thousand-year night; a Korean ridge stayed Korean. None of that was free. The holiday is the bill, read aloud.
If you have a name, say it. If you have a town honor roll, photograph it and send it. This archive has room for the living to keep the dead in the story.